The First Husband: A Novel Novels & Stories

“I don’t say things I don’t mean.” “Is that why this has lasted so long?” He took a quiet breath, considering his answer. “Partially. But a lot of it has to do with who your husband is.” “But you had no idea who he was for the first month.” He was quiet again, choosing his answer carefully. “Then that was all you.”

Now that we are married, he is all those things—gentle, perfect, and fiercely possessive—handing me almost everything I desire. I truly believe I've landed the kind of love every woman in our world dreams about. That illusion lasts until the day Matteo gets taken out in an assassination. After that, Lorenzo steps up as the Sabellas' new Don. It isn't long before he says he has family business to handle and disappears overseas for three years. Even on the day I deliver our daughter, Luna Gallo, he can't come home because of some emergency. Then I hear a recording that's blowing up on the family's internal network.

THE UNSEEN HUSBAND One year. It had been one year since Alessia had arrived at the capital with three frightened children and a heart full of uncertainty. One year since she'd discovered the kind officer from the train was her husband. One year since their lives had changed forever. And now, on the anniversary of that reunion, Sebastian had a proposal. "Marry me again," he said one morning as they sat with coffee, watching the sun rise over the city. Alessia looked at him, confused. "We're already married."

And after we became a couple, he truly kept his word. He put me first in everything. Never let me feel neglected. Never hurt me—at least, not then. People admired us. To them, we were the kind of love story everyone secretly wished for— from youth to vows, from campus hallways to wedding rings. I believed it too. That was why I accepted his proposal. Why I stepped willingly into a marriage I had once sworn I would never enter. Then, I discovered the truth. He had been hiding another woman from me. In that instant, my belief that true love existed collapsed completely.

My hands reached out blindly, touching the shoulders and arms of the people around me as I moved, completely unaware of the dark, predatory eyes tracking me through the flashing red lights. Suddenly, a pair of rough, heavy hands gripped my waist from behind. Through the thick, spinning fog in my mind, my heart skipped a beat. The grip felt firm, possessive, and masculine. A tiny, desperate spark buried deep within me, the part of me that still desperately wished to be wanted by my husband, whispered his name. Damian. It had to be him. He had come to find me. He had left the office because he couldn't stand the space between us.

I jerk my head away, the smell of his expensive cologne making my stomach do a somersault. "Stop it. You can't keep doing this. You can't keep pretending that any of this is normal. We aren't a happy couple on a getaway. You’re a felon and I’m your prisoner." He looks at me with a pained kind of confusion, as if I’m the one being difficult. "What’s abnormal about a husband offering his wife a drink? About a man wanting to dance with his wife and enjoy a quiet evening? You always wanted my time, didn't you?"

Angela Romero-Fernan is an ideal wife. A perfect Type-A wife to be exact. A loving wife to her husband Sebastian Fernan. A caring mother to their only son Thomas Romero Fernan. Angela also fulfills the duty of a CEO on their own family business. You see, she is the perfect ideal wife any man could wish for. But her husband Sebastian saw all those things from a different perspective. And indeed up cheating on her perfect wife Angela. And now shady things happened that their perfect marriage is at risk.

"It all comes back to you, are you ready to raise the child of your husband's first wife? Because no matter what, blood is thicker than water. In the future, there will surely be shadows of the first wife haunting your marriage. "And because of that, you shouldn't hate your husband's child. Because children don't understand their parents' issues," Adaline replied again. "Not to scare you. But most cases happen like that." Joanna and Tessa nodded in agreement with Adaline's words. "Adaline is right. Sometimes if the first wife doesn't agree with their separation or feels jealous of her ex-husband's new marriage, they always find many ways to make their husband's new marriage uncomfortable.

She could not pretend to be ignorant anymore. "Of course, it's true. And they said that Secretary Summers’ first wife treated her kindly. She even asked Secretary Summers to pay her a visit when he was out on a business trip. Who would have thought that shameless thing would seduce her best friend's husband and give birth to a daughter? No one would have been able to take it. Later on, Secretary Summers’ first wife got into an accident and passed away. Susan took this opportunity to become his wife. She even drove his first wife's daughter away. After that, Secretary Summers was transferred to different places. That’s why no one knew about it and everyone thought she was the first wife. Litt